This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/gpu/drm/ast: Fix infinite loop if read fails to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-gpu-drm-ast-fix-infinite-loop-if-read-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 298360af3dab45659810fdc51aba0c9f4097e4f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:12:41 +1100 Subject: drivers/gpu/drm/ast: Fix infinite loop if read fails From: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 298360af3dab45659810fdc51aba0c9f4097e4f6 upstream. ast_get_dram_info() configures a window in order to access BMC memory. A BMC register can be configured to disallow this, and if so, causes an infinite loop in the ast driver which renders the system unusable. Fix this by erroring out if an error is detected. On powerpc systems with EEH, this leads to the device being fenced and the system continuing to operate. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161215051241.20815-1-ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ static int ast_get_dram_info(struct drm_ ast_write32(ast, 0x10000, 0xfc600309); do { - ; + if (pci_channel_offline(dev->pdev)) + return -EIO; } while (ast_read32(ast, 0x10000) != 0x01); data = ast_read32(ast, 0x10004); @@ -428,7 +429,9 @@ int ast_driver_load(struct drm_device *d ast_detect_chip(dev, &need_post); if (ast->chip != AST1180) { - ast_get_dram_info(dev); + ret = ast_get_dram_info(dev); + if (ret) + goto out_free; ast->vram_size = ast_get_vram_info(dev); DRM_INFO("dram %d %d %d %08x\n", ast->mclk, ast->dram_type, ast->dram_bus_width, ast->vram_size); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/drivers-gpu-drm-ast-fix-infinite-loop-if-read-fails.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html